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[OC Richard]

I wonder if there is any particular version that is considered better for certain evening wear situations? Is there a cantle or color or kind of fur or tassel scheme that is for evening but not formal wear or not?

If you look back over the last 150+ years what stands out to me is that Highland Dress underwent a major transformation in the early 20th century.

For some reason in the period around WWI Highland Dress became more orderly, with two clearly-defined categories Evening Dress and Day (or Outdoor) Dress.

Each had a quite specific sort of shirt, necktie, jacket, sporran, hose, and shoes, and "it wouldn't do" to mix these things.

Traditional Highland Dress hasn't really changed, fundamentally, since, and precisely the same outfits entire which would have looked "correct" in 1920 would look proper today. (They loved to use that term, "correct", back then!)

Anyhow with sporrans there was a clear dichotomy between Evening and Day sporrans. Any Evening sporran would be deemed "correct" for Evening and any Day sporran "correct" for outdoor/daytime wear.